Data and samples obtained in the Marquesas Islands from 1954 to
1960 form the basis of this report. Various morphological traits of the Marquesan
sardine, Sardinella marquesensis, are described, and measures of their ...

A seismic refraction survey was carried out in the waters around
the Solomon Islands during November and December 1966. Three ships were
involved in the survey: two, stationed at the end points of the traverses, acted ...

The Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides
Archipelago are examples of fractured island
"arcs," autochthonous geological systems, in
which pattern s of straight-line fractures and
vertical and horizontal movement of ...

Tofua Island is an oval, steep-sided composite volcano, 5 miles by 6
miles in diameter, the summit of which has collapsed to form a caldera. Within the
caldera, Lofia cone is still active.
Four unit s have been mapped: ...

The taxonomy, ecology, and regional distribution
of lichens in New Zealand are imperfectly
known (Galloway, 1966, 1968a, 1968b;
Martin, 1966, 1968). In surveying the scattered
literature, Galloway (1966) found that ...

Among the rich collections of Pandanaceae
in the herb aria of Bogor (BO) and Leiden (L)
are numerous specimens of Freycinetia collected
in Ternate by V. M. A. Beguin. The greater
part of these represent a species which ...

Little information concerning the haliclonids
of the Pacific Coast of the United States
is presently available. De Laubenfels (1933)
described briefly several haliclonids of California, but gave no account of their ...

The argentinid fish described in this paper
was collected by Mr. Paul Struhsaker of the University
of Hawaii during the course of his investigations
on the biology of Hawaiian
demersal fish and shrimp populations. ...

In heteroblastic development the juvenile
and adult phases of a plant have the same genotype
but the phenotypes are different, and Cook
(1968, p. 97), noting that such phenotypic plasticity
has undoubtedly led to a ...

Taiwan red pine (Pinus taiwanensis Hayata)
is endemic to the island of Taiwan, or Formosa
(Li, 1963). It is one of the so-called uninodal
pines - that is, its winter bud elongates to form
an unbranched axis bearing ...

Three trends in forest succession are described from the coastal and
lowland lava flows (<1,000 feet) of Mauna Loa and Kilauea in Hawaii. All begin
on bare rock in a region of high rainfall (75 to 150 inches). One trend ...

Alcoholic and ether extracts of obligate herbivores, omnivores, and
detritus feeders common on Caulerpa or in its communities were found, via
comparative, and sometimes quantitative, thin-layer chromatography, to ...